Philippines Sets Million EV Goal

PHOTO CAPTION: BEMAC electric tuk tuks rolling off assembly line Tweet Philippines Sets Million EV Goal By 2020, the island archipelago of nearly 100 million people wants to have one million electric vehicles on its roads, which unlike the USA, might actually be achievable. Published: 24-Feb-2016 Back in 2011 during the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama set a goal of having a million electric vehicles on the nation's streets and roads by 2015. As the year came and went, US EV sales only achieved 40% of that target. Now the government of the Philippines has set a similar numerical goal of putting 1 million "electric vehicles" on its roads, but with a significant difference. Rather than defining EVs solely as automobiles costing tens of thousands of dollars apiece, the Philippine definition includes an EV World-range of electric vehicles, including electric ...